Yay! YouTube API Now Supports Upload!

We're currently working on a project where we handle a lot of images and videos. Rather than handle these ourselves, we wanted to make use of the heavyweight's infrastructure where possible - this meant Flickr for images and YouTube for video.. but there was one snag - we couldn't upload video via the API. There were 'hacks' available, but we don't like to build solutions on unsupported features.

Instead, we started looking at Ruby solutions. Top of the list was the RVideo project, and we got this up and running with minimum hassle. Next on the list was to start building a processing queue.. but wait.. what's that on the YouTube Developer API Blog - it's the ability to upload via the API!

The update includes quite a few updates, so take a read of the blog post. Most importantly for me, it now supports uploads so time for me to take a look and see if it does everything we need it to!

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Comment on Yay! YouTube API Now Supports Upload! by Jan

March 18th, 2008 @ 03:33 – permalink

Hey, very interesting post. Will you let me know once you've played around with the youtube api and ruby? It's not urgent for us, but it will surely be sooner or later!

thanks,

jan
Comment on Yay! YouTube API Now Supports Upload! by Chris

March 20th, 2008 @ 11:03 – permalink

Hi Jan

I sure will - ideal world would be that I spawn some reusable code that I can share with the world! Failing that, i'll definately take the time to blog some more about my experiences!

Thanks
Comment on Yay! YouTube API Now Supports Upload! by joost

March 21st, 2008 @ 15:47 – permalink

Let me know too :) I'm dying to get Ruby to upload video's to Youtube.
Comment on Yay! YouTube API Now Supports Upload! by Fabio

April 2nd, 2008 @ 16:38 – permalink

That would be great!!! I'm also interested in this ruby interface to the new Youtube API. Keep going Chris!

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Author: Chris Anderton
Published: March 12th, 2008 @ 11:16
Updated: March 12th, 2008 @ 11:40
Tags: api, flickr, rails, ruby, rvideo, transcoding, video, youtube
Comments: 4 comments

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